Wave-power motor.



No. 644,869. Patented Mar. 6, I900.

W. NEWELL.

WAVE POWER MOTOR.

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No. 644,869. Patented Mar. 6, I900. W. NEWELL.

WAVE POWER MOTOR.

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IVILLIAM NEWELL, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

WAVE-POWER MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 644,869, dated March 6,1900.

Application filed June 19,1899. Serial No. 721,173. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM NEWELL, residing at San Francisco, State ofCalifornia, have invented a Wave-Power Motor, of which the annexed is aspecification.

My invention relates to an apparatus which is particularly designed toutilize the action of waves to force inward and outward two gates whichare attached toa tunnel, thereby operating a pumping mechanism for thecompression of air to be stored in tanks and also a pumping mechanismfor raising water.

It consists of two pumps, each being connected by suitable mechanism toa gate, one of which gates is attached to the entrance and the othergate is attached to the end of a tunnel in such manner that when thegate at the entrance of the tunnel is pushed inward or outward by waterit will actuate a pump and when the gate at the end of the tunnel ispushed outward by water it will actuate a pump.

Reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which the inventionis represented, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of my wave-motor.Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the gate E. Fig. 3 is an elevation ofthe pumping mechanism.

A, Fig. 1, is a tunnel of sufficient capacity to admit any amount ofwater which may be necessary. This tunnel may be excavated in the cliffbordering on the ocean or built on the shore where there is sufficientrise of the waves. One end of this tunnel Ais connected at B with acanal 0, whose sides diverge outwardly in a direction that will admitthe waves to its expanded mouth. The waves are thereby concentrated at Band pass into the tunnel at the gate E. The mouth of the canal O is sosituated that it will always be open for the ingress of waves. In placeswhere the rise and fall of the tide is considerable two or more of thesecanals may be made to con nect with the tunnel A, the lowermost of thecanals being operative until the mouth is entirely submerged and thecanal or canals above coming into action as soon as the tide has risenhigh enough to flow into them.

E and F are gates, which are hung by their upper sides to the top of thetunnelAat D D.

The Waves coming from the canal 0 will be thrown against the gate E,pushing it inward.

The tunnel A is inclined upward from the gate E to about the center ofthe tunnel. Itthen declines from that point to the gate F in such mannerthat when the water rushes into the tunnel with sufficient force it willglide completely through and, passing outward, will be thrown againstthe gate F at the end of the tunnel, forcing this gate outward. If thewater does not enter the tunnel with suficient force to carry it throughto the outer gate F, it will fall back down the incline against the gateE, pushing it outward. A conduit extends to the ocean from the tunnel Aat the outer gate E, Fig. 1, which is sufficiently large to carry thewater which passes through this gate.

Each of the canals may be provided with gates, which may be closed, andthereby prevent ingress of the water to the tunnel when necessary.

The floor G of the canal O is inclined to prevent its-becomingobstructed by sand or other substances.

E,-Fig. 2, represents one of the gates. It is pivotally attached at D tothe tunnel A, substantially as described.

The chains K K, Fig. 3, are attached to the wheel N on the shaft D andare also attached to the ends of the rocking arm I, to which is fastenedthe crank M, revo1ving on the shaft L. When the waves force the gate Einward and upward, it causes the wheel N to revolve, which works therocking arm I and drives the piston-rods P P of the pumps 0 O.

The pipe Q is the inlet for the salt water, which is sucked up by thepumps 0 O, which are placed over the gate E. This pipe is extended downto the bottom of the tunnel A, Fig. 1, near the gate E.

B, Fig. 3, is the outlet-pipe for the water from the pumps 0 O. Thiswater may be forced to any place desired by extending this pipe.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a motor the combination of a gate'pivotally attached to theentrance of a tunnel, adapted to be pushed inward by the power of a waveflowing into a tunnel from a canal,

thereby operating a pump in unison thereotally attached to a tunnel,adapted to be a Wave which passing througha gate hung at 0 pushedoutward by the power of a wave flowthe entrance of the tunnel, can passout of the ing outward from a tunnel against said gate, tunnel through agate hung at the end of the thereby operating a pump in unisontheretunnel. with. n 1

3. In a motor a tunnel Whose floor is in- WILLIAM NEWLLL' clined upwardfrom the entrance to about the Witnesses: center, and downward from thatpoint to the THOMAS V. OATOR,

end of the tunnel, it being adapted to admit E. O. OORDELL.

